Rights Executive
Canongate Books is one of the UK’s leading independent publishers – in 2021, we were named Independent Publisher of the Year and one of our Rights team won Rights Professional of the Year – and we’re looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking Rights Executive to join the Rights & Contracts team in our Edinburgh office.
Our ideal candidate will be a creative and passionate self-starter with a love of books and at least one year’s experience in a Rights department pitching and selling books; with excellent communication and organisational skills; close attention to detail; a head for numbers; experience with contracts and a knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Biblio and InDesign.
Responsibilities will include:
- Handling sub-agented territories in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Russia and Israel as well as direct sales in Arabic-speaking countries and India, meeting sub-agents and publishers at international book fairs
- Handling permissions via the platform PLS
- Handling artwork requests and cover approvals
- Book Fair preparations which include designing and updating our Rights Guide, scheduling meetings and coordinating a new titles showcase for our subagents
- Press updates to foreign publishers who have bought our books
- Maintaining our database on Biblio for contacts, deals, submissions and payments
- Taking care of publicity requests on behalf of foreign publishers and maintaining key authors’ publicity schedules internationally
- Assisting the Rights & Contracts team as a whole and being the main point of contact for queries to the team
This is a full-time role reporting to the Senior Rights Manager, and will be based in Edinburgh, though the company is still operating with flexible working guidelines at the current time.
Salary: minimum £24,000pa, depending on experience
To apply, please send your CV (including contact details for two references) and a covering letter to Jessica Neale, Rights & Contracts Director, detailing why you feel you are suitable for this role. Email to recruitment@canongate.co.uk. The deadline for applications is midday Monday 6th December.
Canongate is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment and its employment policies for recruitment are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to everyone. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for the position. We will keep your information securely until 23 December 2021. Unless you are the successful applicant, all of your information will be deleted from our systems at that point.